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Qi** Li
Geography
Geographical Information Systems/Cartography
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Land Parcel Identification
Land parcel is the finest unit to describe the location, boundary, and ownership in land management. Land survey is the most popular way to identify land parcel in the history of land management. However, land...
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Image Processing Methods in Agricultural Observation Systems
Image processing is an essential part of the agricultural observation system. This chapter is the first attempt to provide an overview of the image processing methods, technologies, and tools from the perspect...
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Planning for Safer Road Facilities for Bicycle Users at Junctions
Promoting bicycle travel in a city where people are used to driving private cars is a difficult task. Safety is a major factor discouraging people from cycling and it needs to be addressed in order to achieve ...
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Map** Spatial Information Landscape in Cyberspace with Social Media
This chapter describesa Spatial Web Automatic Reasoning and Map** System (SWARMS) for visualizing and analyzing space-time dimensions of information landscape represented by a social media channel—Twitter. SWAR...
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General Background of the Study Area and Materials
This chapter introduces the basic geographical background of the severe soil erosion area in the Loess Plateau. The spatial distribution of the key test areas and the reasons for their selection will also be d...
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Conclusions and Perspectives
This chapter will analyze and summarize the proposed method and the experimental results of this monograph. The limitations of this monograph will also be examined to help identify the next steps for loess lan...
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The Pervasive Challenge of Error and Uncertainty in Geospatial Data
Understanding, quantifying and communicating uncertainty in spatial data, and its propagation through geospatial analyses have been a challenge long recognized in the geospatial community. Over the decades, ex...
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Reconstruction of the Loess Underlying Paleotopography for Loess Landform Inheritance
Pre-existing paleotopography refers to the paleosurface captured during a certain period of the landform formation process that reflects the surface morphology of paleogeography, records the environmental hist...
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Spatial Variations in Loess Landform Inheritance
The preexisting underlying paleotopography directly influences the loess deposition process and shapes the morphology of current loess landforms. However, such a controlling effect exhibits spatial variations ...
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Toward a Better Understanding of Urban Sprawl: Linking Spatial Metrics and Landscape Networks Dynamics
Although many studies have been made on change, most of them focus on a specific aspect (e.g., or policy) with fewer considerations of of . In this study, we explored the in Bei**g over the past th...
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Significance of Loess Landform Inheritance
This chapter discusses the significance of modeling and examining loess landform inheritance. The feasibility of considering inheritance as the entry point of loess landform research will also be investigated....
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Conceptual Model of Loess Landform Inheritance
This chapter discusses the conceptual model of loess landform inheritance along with the definitions, basic characteristics, geomeanings, influencing factors, existing conditions, type classifications, and met...
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A Smart Service-Oriented CyberGIS Framework for Solving Data-Intensive Geospatial Problems
This chapter introduces a CyberGIS solution that aims at resolving the big data challenges in the discovery, search, visualization and interoperability of geospatial data. We describe a service-oriented archit...
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Investigation of Loess Landform Inheritance by Using Quantitative Terrain Indexes
In this chapter, on a basis of the reconstructed dual-layer terrain models of the modern terrain and underlying paleotopography, several quantitative terrain indexes were selected to express the characteristic...
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ST-PF: Spatio-Temporal Particle Filter for Floating-Car Data Pre-processing
Floating-car data (FCD) are never perfectly accurate due to various noises. To make FCD available, we propose a novel spatio-temporal particle filter ST-PF for FCD pre-processing. First we analyze the causes o...
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Optimized Conflation of Authoritative and Crowd-Sourced Geographic Data: Creating an Integrated Bike Map
A complete and accurate geographic dataset is critical for relevant analysis and decision-making. This chapter proposes a four-step geographic data-conflation system: preprocessing, automatic conflation, evalu...
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Vessel Scheduling Optimization in Different Types of Waterway
With the continuous development of maritime-hardware systems, intelligent decision making in port transport becomes increasingly more important. There are three types of waterways in China, which is specific a...
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OriGami: A Mobile Geogame for Spatial Literacy
Spatial literacy, the skill of learning about and improving interaction with one’s surroundings, is an inherently transdisciplinary competency transcending from STEM to social sciences and arts. Spatial litera...
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Modelling Urban Growth Evolution Using SLEUTH Model: A Case Study in Wuhan City, China
With the development of economy and society, the comprehensive strength of Wuhan has been increasing rapidly. The expanding of urban space has caused traffic congestion, population density, environmental degra...
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Map** Urban Landscapes Along Streets Using Google Street View
City streets are a focal point of human activity in urban centers. Citizens interact with the urban environment through its streetscape and it is imperative to, not only map city streetscapes, but quantify tho...
